Two workers dead in Yadadri unit blast
Police told PTI two died and nine were injured after a late‑night explosion at a pharmaceutical unit in Pochampally mandal, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri. The company has not been named yet; a case has been registered and a probe is on.
The pharmaceutical unit in Pochampally mandal after the late-night blast.
Two workers died and nine were injured after an explosion at a pharmaceutical unit in Pochampally mandal, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, late on Friday, 21 August 2026, according to a police statement carried by PTI. The report says the blast sparked a fire that the Fire Department later extinguished.
“Two persons died. Nine people were injured, including two who suffered more than 50 per cent burns while seven sustained minor injuries,” an unnamed police official was quoted as saying. The injured were admitted to different hospitals, the report adds. A case has been registered and an investigation is under way.
Key facts remain undisclosed: the company’s name, the exact plant address, the cause and timing of the blast, the FIR sections, and hospital bulletins. Until police or the district administration put those on the record, they are not known. What is known is the toll — and that it came on an overnight shift in an industry that cannot afford shortcuts.